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The Music Producer's Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11

By : Anna Lakatos
Book Image

The Music Producer's Creative Guide to Ableton Live 11

By: Anna Lakatos

Overview of this book

The Music Producer's Guide to Ableton Live will help you sharpen your production skills and gain a deeper understanding of the Live workflow. If you are a music maker working with other digital audios workstations (DAWs) or experienced in Ableton Live, perhaps earlier versions, you’ll be able to put your newfound knowledge to use right away with this book. You’ll start with some basic features and workflows that are more suitable for producers from another DAW looking to transfer their skills to Ableton Live 11.2. As you explore the Live concept, you’ll learn to create expressive music using Groove and MIDI effects and demystify Live 11’s new workflow improvements, such as Note Chance and Velocity Randomization. The book then introduces the Scale Mode, MIDI Transform tools, and other key features that can make composition and coming up with melodic elements easier than ever before. It will also guide you in implementing Live 11's new and updated effects into your current workflow. By the end of this Ableton Live book, you’ll be able to implement advanced production and workflow techniques and amplify live performance capabilities with what the Live 11 workflow has to offer.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Live Concept and Workflow
7
Part 2: Creative Music Production Techniques with Ableton Live 11
15
Part 3: Deep Dive into Ableton Live

Summary

We have reached the end of this chapter.

First, we learned how we can apply MIDI editing functions, and explored some new Live 11 features such as note velocity and probability randomization.

We had an extended look at the Groove Pool and how to work with grooves in Live, which is super important knowledge for any producers, no matter what genre of music they are creating.

We looked at MIDI transform tools that can speed up our workflow, as well as allow us to modify our patterns more creatively, using the Invert and Reverse functions.

Finally, we learned how much difference multi-clip editing can make and what MIDI effects Live has available for us.

In the next chapter, we are going to dive in and discover how we can extensively use take lanes and comping as well as track linking, which are all new and exciting Live 11 features.